President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, was convicted on Tuesday, June 11, of three felony gun charges.
Shortly after Hunter Biden’s conviction, an apparent statement from President Donald Trump was shared widely on social media.
“His father, one of our worst presidents, is more concerned with making the gun control people happy, so he won’t have the courage to step in here and help Hunter. Don’t worry, Joe – I will Save your son after I get elected (for the third time)!” the statement reads.
While many people believed the statement was legitimate, others claimed it was fabricated.
THE QUESTION
Is a Trump statement promising to “save” Hunter Biden after his conviction real?
THE SOURCES
- Posts on X from Trump senior adviser Jason Miller
- X posts from conservative commentators Kyle Becker and Charlie Kirk
- Official Trump campaign statement
- Search of Trump’s Truth Social account
THE ANSWER
No, the Trump statement promising to “save” Hunter Biden after his conviction isn’t real.
WHAT WE FOUND
The purported statement from President Trump promising to “save” Hunter Biden after he was convicted of three felony gun charges is fabricated. A legitimate statement about Hunter Biden’s conviction was shared on Trump’s official campaign website.
“This is fake,” Trump senior adviser Jason Miller said on Tuesday in response to now-deleted X posts from conservative commentators Kyle Becker and Charlie Kirk.
While VERIFY was unable to view the original posts from Becker and Kirk, both shared follow-up posts addressing the fake statement.
“Sorry, this came via a trusted source,” Becker said when retweeting a post about the fabricated statement.
Kirk said to “disregard” a “fake statement attributed to Donald Trump going around RE: Hunter Biden’s conviction.”
VERIFY also searched Trump’s Truth Social account and did not find any such statement after the Hunter Biden verdict was announced on June 11.
Trump’s official campaign website and multiple people associated with his campaign, including Trump’s national press secretary Karoline Leavitt, Miller and Donald Trump Jr., shared a legitimate statement in response to the Hunter Biden verdict that did not mention “saving” Hunter Biden.
“The trial has been nothing more than a distraction from the real crimes of the Biden Crime Family, which has raked in tens of millions of dollars from China, Russia and Ukraine. Crooked Joe Biden’s reign over the Biden Family Criminal Empire is all coming to an end on November 5th, and never again will a Biden sell government access for personal profit,” the official statement attributed to Leavitt reads.
Trump’s statement is referencing Hunter Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine and China while his father was vice president, which have drawn accusations of corruption. But no corruption charges have been filed against Hunter Biden or President Biden.
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